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Shakespeare's Tree

Unnamed Road, Primrose Hill, London NW3 3AX, UK
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  • Place Types Park
  • Address Unnamed Road, Primrose Hill, London NW3 3AX, UK
  • Coordinate 51.5394047,-0.1602201
  • Website Unknown
  • Rating 5
  • Compound Code GRQQ+QW London, UK
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Lucas Cochrane (12/19/2020)
Great tree.
Stevelites (08/21/2019)
100,000 people attended the planting in 1864 which was organised by the Workingmen’s Shakespeare Committee to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in 1564. This group was set up following disappointment in the commemoration efforts of the government-appointed committee. The tree was planted by actor Samuel Phelps. Chartist poet Eliza Cooke wrote a poem and had intended to read it there herself but due to sickness could not attend so someone else read the poem. The tree died but was replaced 100 years later, on April 23, 1964, by actress Dame Edith Evans at a smaller event organised by Society for Theatre Research. The Royal Parks Agency provided a plaque but that went missing very quickly and the RPA now have a no-plaque policy for trees, for this very reason.
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